Friday, January 20, 2006

There are too many urgent and important interruptions that must be settled at my new work station.

I find myself once again caught up in a daily work routine until I have no time to plan and improve the conditions of the work station. The Deputy Boss is a tough sell while I am a very poor salesperson. Time and again I fail to sell my ideas of improvement to her.

I think my continuous outpouring of ideas irritated her to a point where she had to sit me down and ask me to think of my priorities. I set out to start by improving the work conditions at the store. To her, it is fine as it is (because the staff has been coping). Instead, she wants me to get away from the store more and look towards building a rapport with the customers.

I am torn. In my opinion, in order to better our services we need to start with ourselves before we can even think of going elsewhere. But she is ‘the boss’.

Monday, January 02, 2006

But you do not tell your family that you’re feeling so sick of them at the moment and need some serious alone time. So on New Year ’s Eve, I asked Cik Easy to be my alibi and checked myself in at Sheraton Subang.

What the heck will I be doing there all alone, you may ask. Why, absolutely nothing. Cik Easy did invite me to join him at Geng Jurnal’s New Year bash but I decided not to. I did regret it later because SM was there! I have wanted to meet him so much but I’m sure there’s hikmah in not attending that party.

Anyway, I managed to snap some really awful shots of hanabi (which I wanted to get rid off but couldn’tbear to) at midnight. After that, I only ventured out for breakfast. The rest of the day was spent watching TV in my room and ordering from room service whenever I get hungry, which was less often than I expected.

Ma and Pa found it odd that I’d spend more than a night away from home. They just couldn’t understand why when all I could possibly need is at home while I couldn’t even begin to enlighten them.

I checked out this afternoon still feeling unsatisfied. I have a sinking feeling that I’ll be needing Cik Easy for an alibi again quite soon…